Confidence

Question 1

What is sports confidence?

Answer 1

the belief or degree of certainty individuals possess about their ability to be success in sport

Question 2

What is self-efficacy?

Answer 2

The self confidence we have in specific situations

Question 3

How does high confidence affect sport performance?

Answer 3

• High motivation to achieve
• Performer will take firm decisions that are more likely to have positive outcomes in sport
• More likely to achieve a better outcome than someone with low sport confidence

Question 4

How does confidence affect participation?

Answer 4

• High confidence - Participate with other people and not feel inhibited and feel more able to engage in team activities
• Low confidence - shy away from activities, avoid situations that may be related to competition

Question 5

How does confidence affect self-esteem?

Answer 5

• The feeling of self-worth that determines how valuable and competent we feel
• High SC = high self-esteem, help performance as sports demand high levels of arousal or drive to achieve
• Low SC = low self-esteem, feel not good enough or valuable enough to contribute to contribute to team or individual sports performance

Question 6

What are teh four key factors that contribute to the development of self-efficacy?

Answer 6

• Vicarious Experience
• Past Experience
• Social persuasion
• Physiological and emotional states

Question 7

How does vicarious experience develop self-efficacy?

Answer 7

A performer who has watched others achieving the task will feel that he or she is able to do so as well, experiencing high self efficacy, especially if the model is of similar ability

Question 8

How does verbal persuasion develop self-efficacy?

Answer 8

A performer who receives encouragement about his or her abilities and actions, especially from significant others, will feel more confident about his or her actions or attempts

Question 9

How does emotional arousal develop self-efficacy?

Answer 9

A performer who is encouraged to perceive his or her physiological in a positive mnanner is more likely to develop high self-efficacy

Question 10

What is the Vealey’s sport confidence model?

Answer 10

• Shows that every sports person or athlete has an existing level of sport confidence, which is a trait (SC-trait) and an existing level of competitiveness (competitive orientation)
• The amounts of SC-trait and competitive orientation both influence the level of confidence that shown in a specific situation in sport (SC-state) or level of self-efficacy during specific competition
• The level od the SC-stae then dictates the behaviour that is hown and the skill level of the performance

Question 11

How does subjective outcome affect vealey’s sports confidence model?

Answer 11

• How someone interprets their performance in sport
• After sports performance, satisfaction/ disappointment will occur.
• Subjective perceptions of outcome will affect the athletes confidence and competitiveness in future performance
• The more confident a performer is the more successful they will be, the more successful a performer is the more confident they will be